Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Afraid
By renge
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 555 | 3.58 | 27 | |
| Fun | 934 | 2.94 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 551 | 3.38 | 27 | |
| Theme | 766 | 3.34 | 27 | |
| Mood | 328 | 3.80 | 27 |
This was an interesting experience. It wasn't really fun, but so is living with a mental illness so its on point. Sadly I couldn't get very far because the bars decrease quite rapidly, but the narration through journal entries acts as a good motivation to keep going through the struggles of the everyday routine. An interesting take on the theme, well done :thumbsup:
@adamsmccall thank you for the feedback! Was there anything stopping you from refilling the bars?
@renge Well it was mostly my own fault I think, on the second day I thought I could just do whatever I wanted so I went to work, realized I couldn't, then went back home which depleted my bars by quite a lot. The day after I think I ate all my food already and didn't think of drinking alcohol before going to work lol
Very nice concept, good job!
Nice idea for the theme, I had fun playing this and quite a lot of details for a 72hr project. I didn't find any bugs and it ran as smooth as butter. Good game.
Interesting idea. I really liked the intro and the narration in general. Also the big sign indicating where is what were very useful. Feeling a bit moody now lol, but I guess that's the point.
Easy to understand even though you built in a lot of detail. Gameplay was smooth, I enjoyed it. I too thought I could just do whatever I want quickly learned I need a strategy. Nice entry
Big scope, great execution.
@jacinto-mba @soul-grinder @vincent7 @thenerdster @raaph
Thank you so much for playing, and thank you for your kind words!
I love this ! It is quite attractive, the musics are really good. I didn't see so much the theme in the game aside the crowd you have to avoid. It would be perfect with a better ui and more feedbacks, but it is great in 3 days !
Pretty big idea to make a whole town for the ludum :smile: Great artwork, nice sounds. It's a neat idea reminds me very much of a life sim, but I guess with the added difficulty of the mental illness. Enjoyable experience, but maybe a little bit too much running around.
The narrative is very present, it really feels like the life of a lot of people nowadays. It caused me to reflect a bit.
Anyway, being honest I wonder if the game would benefit from a 2D side scrolling perspective a bit more then 3D third person. I recall The End of the World, which is a good thing, and maybe a great reference.
Since it is clear that the Journal is a big part of the narrative, wandering around too much felt a bit overwhelming. Maybe with a little bit less map to worry about the UX could have benefited from a review. Feels to me that not all information was necessary on every interaction. Also it was not clear what was indeed interactable or not, which can be a bit frustrating at times.
I get that the relation with the theme is being limited by anxiety and fear of people, a good abstraction of the theme.
Overall its a good idea that I can clearly see being fully developed into a product, so great job!
Initially I thought the game was fairly simple and easy to get through the days, but then I got more and more invested in the journal entries and had to see it to the end. The story had a realistic honesty to it that made it feel believable. The mood was spot on as the first time I stepped outside, I felt uncomfortable which played into the social anxiety of the character. Well done!
The project is very interesting ! There was a lot to learn while playing it as the days went on and the journal entries followed one another. Fairly simple on the first days but it did get harder to manage everything with time, also becoming personally more anxious little by little... The game is really on point. Very well done ! Very instructive !
I have only one thing that could be nice to as would be a little map in the comments, it took me some time to know were I had to go the first day and eventually had to start over again so I could start the game without having depleted my bars.